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MapQuest AS3/Flex Club Finder

Tuesday, May 5th, 2009 | Technology, Tutorials, Web Design, Work

This past release Erich C. and I have been working on a new AS3/Flex Club Finder.  We currently have 2 different club finders on our website seen here:

Flash Club Finder:

JSP Club Finder:

This new project is meant to allow our members to set their favorite clubs in their profile.  This would allow them to quickly access the club’s resources, such as group X class schedules, phone numbers, amenities, ect.  We were given one release cycle to duplicate the basic functionality our previous club finders delivered.  What a challenge! This is what we achieved:

This was a very beneficial project for me because I was to help build it from scratch. We overcame some very technically confusing challenges (such as loading an unsecured swf application inside another secure swf application). I got a lot of exposure to Flex’s event driven architecture and enjoyed learning a ton about laying out components with Flex.

I’ll make another post about the specific challenges and how we resolved them.

Tags: flex, Job, Mapquest

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